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Excerpt from Letters, &C., Of Early Friends: Illustrative of the History of the Society, From Nearly Its Origin, to About the Period of George Fox's Decease; With Documents Respecting Its Early Discipline, Also Epistles of Counsel and Exhortation, &C
IN presenting to the reader this volume of Letters and other Documents of our Early Friends, the greater part of Which, it is believed, have never been in print, it may be proper for the Editor to state, that they are mostly taken from originals or ancient 00pies, contained in various collections, as well private, as those in the possession of the Society in London and in the country. The prin eipel collection of manuscripts from which they have been selected, is that Which is denominated by the Editor, the Swarthmore Collection it formerly contained a very large number of original letters of the Early Friends, mostly addressed to Mar garet Fell, before her marriage with George Fox in 1669, but some few subsequently, and others to -ge0rge Fox himself. These manuscripts were probably kept together at Swarthmore Hall in Lancashire for many years, or at least till the decease of Margaret Fox in 17 02; but in the course of' the last century, the collection became divided.
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